On July 22, 2019, Knowledge Ecology International submitted a letter to the US House of Representative’s Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) lack of transparency in its exclusive licensing processes. Prior to executing an… Continue Reading
On July 2, 2019, KEI and UACT submitted comments to the Federal Register notice 84 FR 28063 on the “Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License: Lutetium-177 Radiotherapeutics Against Somatostatin-Receptor Expressing Neuroendocrine Tumors” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The proposed… Continue Reading
UPDATE: On July 11, 2019, KEI received the following letter in response to the comments below: Response to KEI_7-11-19 On July 2, 2019, KEI and UACT submitted comments to the Federal Register notice 84 FR 28063, on the “Prospective Grant… Continue Reading
UPDATE: On 4 July 2019, the Core Group will submit a “TABLING REV 1” version of their resolution on “Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard… Continue Reading
On June 7, 2019, KEI and UACT submitted comments to the Federal Register notice 84 FR 23798, on the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: The Development and Use of a Therapeutic STAT3 Inhibitor, GLG-302, in All Proliferative Diseases,… Continue Reading
Zolgensma, Novartis’s new $2.1 million gene therapy for children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), is a remarkable breakthrough with a steep price tag: the cost per child is $2.125 million. The treatment was developed using research funded by the National… Continue Reading
June 14, 2019 Zolgensma, the Novartis brand name for the new $2.1 million gene therapy for treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), appears to be a remarkable medical breakthrough treatment. It is also, like all of the new cell- and… Continue Reading
At today’s House Oversight Hearing on PrEP, one of issues will be access to Truvada (FTC+TDF), but also Descovy (FEMTRICITABINE+TENOFOVIR ALAFENAMIDE), a two drug combination, that uses TAF instead of TDF, and is less toxic than Truvada. The Goodrx price… Continue Reading
University of Oklahoma request for U.S. Manufacturing Waiver for rHA, on the grounds that labor costs would be cheaper in China, and in subject revisions, also in Bulgaria. r_Part1_p0012-21.pdf r_r_r_1524003-01-0013_FOIA_Pratt.pdf r_r_r_UniversityofOklahomaEIR1524003-01-0018-p0009-p0052-3ms.pdf r_r_UniversityofOklahomaEIR1524003-01-0014Part1-p0002-p0010.pdf r_r_UniversityofOklahomaEIR1524003-01-0018-p0001-p0007.pdf r_r_US-Manufacturing-Waiver-1524003-01-0013-4-8-10.pdf 2011, May 5. HHS Approval of… Continue Reading